Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first point, I am pleased to see that you agree with me generally on the political implications of scholarship and on the emotional, controversial nature of vital political problems. Moreover, I agree completely with your emphasis on accuracy and truth. I have gradually come to accept Noam Chomsky's position on this issue; namely, that truth tends, by definition, to be radical and subversive of the existing order. This may in fact be a rationalization on my part, but it seems to be a reasonable stance. Thus, a political line can never justify the distortion of truth -- I am still...
...upset about I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, a sombre little comedy about not nearly enough, we might as well face the fact that its existence and that of dozens of Hollywood hippie-movies will sooner or later necessitate some responsible discussion to our children, lest they accept a celluloid version of the swinging sixties. Now I have nothing against cheap legend, you understand; the prevalent romanticism of American narrative cinema provides a most captivating, not always inaccurate, cultural history of the U.S.A., sometimes useful as a frame of reference, always in our minds. Our grasp of the twenties...
...censor will accept one line and not another is often a matter of metaphysical subtlety. Carol Burnett describes a hassle during a recent taping session for her comedy show: "I'm in a nudist colony wearing nothing but a barrel. An interviewer asks me what kind of recreation nudists have on Saturday nights...
...find the film's simple attitude towards its characters and their simple attitude towards each other a relief--or pitiful unrealism. Your reaction depends blatantly on the romance in your soul. Are you willing to submerge your modern psychological self-consciousness and accept that love can be that strong...
...tones and patterns. But nearly every picture in every exhibit has this quality. Many exhibits then go on to comment on some phase of human life, or of man's environment, or of nature. In such exhibits the photographers present their individual statements, which the viewer can then either accept, deny, or ignore...